Said to be one of the greatest films never made is an alien invasion horror-thriller that was to have been produced by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg. Entitled Night Skies and based on an idea conceived by Spielberg after having recently made Close Encounters of the Third Kind for Columbia Pictures, the film was inspired by the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter, where a family in Kentucky claimed that they had been terrorized by gremlin-like aliens. Spielberg's concept, described as "Straw Dogs with aliens," involved a band of malicious extraterrestrial scientists trying to communicate with chickens, cows, and other livestock in an attempt to discover which of Earth's animal species are sentient, before turning their unwelcome attentions to a human family and dissecting their farm animals. Piranha scribe John Sayles was hired to pen the screenplay, which included a subplot involving one of the aliens — the only kind and innocent one — befriending the human family's autistic son. Spielberg also enlisted Rick Baker to design and create the special make-up and creature effects for the aliens and tapped The Texas Chain Saw Massacre helmer Tobe Hooper to direct the film. However, after making Raiders of the Lost Ark for Lucasfilm and Paramount Pictures, Spielberg began having second thoughts about the project, wanting to instead get back to the tranquillity and spirituality of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. After the film was cancelled, the material developed was instead utilized in two other Spielberg productions: the Hooper-directed Poltergeist, and the Spielberg-directed E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?" Music: "Main Title" – Jerry Goldsmith (Psycho II) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGea90uBvcU

A live-action feature film adaptation of Electronic Arts' popular survival horror/sci-fi video game Dead Space has been in varying stages of development for nearly fifteen years. Set on a mining spaceship overrun by deadly monsters called Necromorphs following the discovery of an artifact called the Marker, the game's story follows an engineer named Isaac Clarke as he navigates the ship and fights the creatures while struggling with growing psychosis. In the summer of 2009, journeyman D.J. Caruso was hired to direct, fresh off of the back-to-back successes of Disturbia and Eagle Eye. Neal H. Moritz and Ori Marmur were to produce through their Original Film shingle, along with Temple Hill Entertainment's Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey and EA's Patrick O'Brien and Steve Papoutsis. The Europa Report scribe Philip Gelatt wrote an initial draft of the film's screenplay, with a later draft being penned by Top Gun: Maverick co-writer Justin Marks. No doubt many of Caruso's frequent collaborators would've also joined in, including score composer Brian Tyler, costume designer Marie-Sylvie Deveau, film editors Vince Filippone and Jim Page, production designer Tom Southwell, and cinematographer Rogier Stoffers. Presumably, Sony's Columbia Pictures would distribute the film given that Original Film had a long-time partnership deal with the studio that lasted until 2019. However, in the ten years since there was an update on the status of the project, no further news ever came of it. Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?" Music: "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" – Jason Graves and Kristine Barrett (Dead Space) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL11sCfmINc